Pitcher injury updates: Glavine and Moylan

"Even after one day [of treatment], it feels unbelievable," the Aussie right-hander said Friday, speaking to reporters for the first time since Andrews confirmed Wednesday the earlier diagnosis of a Braves doctor.

Moylan shagged balls in the outfield during batting practice Friday and said his arm felt so good he had to force himself to toss balls underhanded instead of testing it with his regular throwing motion.

"When I left Sunday I couldn't bend or straighten my arm," he said, demonstrating how he could do that Friday. "I'm not saying it's a miracle; the bone spur's still in there."

But, he said, "If it can heal itself, there's a chance we might be OK."

Here’s the deal on the DL: When Glavine showed up today, Bubby (trainer Jeff Porter) saw bleeding in the hamstring above the knee, always a bad sign.

Doc Chandler examined him at 7 p.m. and told Glav he’d risk really making it a six-week or so injury if he pitched on it. But the Braves didn’t give him a choice anyway.

Cox explained to him that they couldn’t afford to keep him on the active roster with their pitching situation, waiting for him to get healthy. And he said it wouldn’t have been right to send down an outfielder or infielder in order to call up another pitcher and keep Glavine.

Glavine said he completely understood the situation. Said he felt like he let everybody down, that if he could have shot it up and pitched, he would. But can’t do that with a hamstring injury.

He’s pitched with ailments including a broken rib before, but never had leg problems.

"He's a warrior; he was going to try it," manager Bobby Cox said. "We were the ones who stopped it."

And on a lighter note, here are some clubhouse goodies I forgot to share from earlier in the week:

A little levity: Bad as things have been with the losses and injuries on this Bataan Death March of a road trip, it’s important to have a little levity injected into the clubhouse from time to time.

Bullpen coach Eddie Perez provided some yesterday, walking around with a Braves hooded sweatshirt that he’d doctored a bit. It was a postseason sweatshirt from a few years ago, with “MLB postseason” above the Braves logo.

Eddie took two pieces of athletic tape, covered the year before “MLB postseason” on one side and something else I couldn’t read on the other. And on the left (if you’re facing him) piece of tape he wrote “1999” on the right he wrote “MVP.”

Perez, you might recall, was MVP of the 1999 NLCS against the Mets, when he went 10-for-20 with two homers and five RBI.

More humor: On a daily basis, you see snapshots of cultural bonding in a clubhouse. Take Tuesday afternoon, for instance. The big screen TV in the back corner of the visitor’s clubhouse. Jair Jurrjens and Mark Teixeira sunk comfortably into leather furniture watching a DVD of Dazed and Confused.

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They didn't answer mine either (I asked about his necklace that he wears). Good question, though! I want to know about Tyson, too, since he claims he only has a dog named Mindy now. I wonder if they even used fan-submitted questions because those questions are always being asked to him and other players. And they seemed kinda redundant with the glasses questions, which I know he said he's tired of answering questions about. I bet it gets annoying. It's like people don't realize that he's worn glasses for a while (just not played with them), it's nothing really new to him. But that's the media for you.

Did anyone happen to catch the joke that he started to mention about the Wii at the end? I kinda have an idea of what he meant, but didn't know if my assumption was right or not. I'm guessing, though, that Mac felt that his "joke" was inappropriate for TV. Or I could be completely off. :

And I know why Mac referred to Justin Timberlake getting all the "hot women". I know Mac thinks Jessica Biel is hot (it's in his bio in the '09 Souvenir Program). And I love the part where he's sure Ashley won't like him saying that either, lol. I'm guessing that he's a typical guy when it comes to female celebs and pretty women, which I can totally picture anyway. Heh, lol.